As we have noted prominently in recent newsletters and email action alerts, the Federal Highway Administration has recommended sweeping changes to the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD). In Equity and Sustainability (NMA E-Newsletter #637), we criticized the appropriation of those terms, particularly ‘equity,’ to demand broad restrictions on drivers and driving. NMA Director […]
446 Blog Posts From the Speed Limits Tag
Equity and the MUTCD: NMA E-Newsletter #644
May 17, 2021
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Automated Traffic Enforcement, Crosswalks, FHWA, MUTCD, racial profiling, REVENUE GENERATION, Speed Limits, stop signs, traffic stops, Traffic Tickets
The Push to Curtail Driving
May 7, 2021
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85TH PERCENTILE, Bicycle, Bicyclist, FHWA, Fuel, MUTCD, NMSL, PEDESTRIAN, SAFETY, Speed Limits, stop signs, Traffic Signals, Traffic Tickets, VISION ZERO
The Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) is the government’s massive document that controls the application of regulatory devices like stop signs, crosswalk markings, and traffic lights. The MUTCD, last updated in 2009, is the current subject of a proposed federal rule by the FHWA. The sweeping revisions suggested by […]
Are Speed Limit Signs (or lack thereof) Disrespectful to Drivers?
April 30, 2021
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Policing for Profit, REVENUE GENERATION, Speed Limits, Speed Traps, TICKET QUOTA, TICKET REVENUE, Traffic Tickets
By Merrill Gehman, an Alaska NMA Member If those who establish, post, and enforce work zone, detour, and other temporary site speed limit signs wonder why so many drivers don’t obey these signs, I can show them a good example. There are a significant number of these sites where drivers are just not respected. Usually, […]
Drive 55 Everywhere . . . Or Less
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April 23, 2021
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85TH PERCENTILE, Automated Traffic Enforcement, Eric Peters, FHWA, INSURANCE, Insurance Companies, MUTCD, NMA, NMSL, REVENUE GENERATION, SAFETY, Speed Limits, Technology, TICKET FINES, TICKET REVENUE, traffic safety, Traffic Tickets, VISION ZERO
Speed limits are about to become limitless as in, whatever those who set them say they are. This has always been true, to an extent in that all speed limits are, to a degree, arbitrary. People are subject to a ticket, i.e., being extorted by armed government workers, acting on behalf of the government simply […]
The Orwellian Era of Transportation Planning
April 14, 2021
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Bicycle, Bicyclist, Complete Streets, Mass Transit, Parking, Road Diets, Speed Limits, Traffic Calming, Traffic Congestion, Traffic Signals, VISION ZERO
By Christopher M. DiPrima, NMA Board Member Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared as NMA Weekly E-Newsletter #629, emailed in January 2021. If you would like to receive the weekly newsletter, register today at the NMA! George Orwell’s seminal 1984 has defined political discourse for over 70 years. Among the book’s most prescient concepts is doublethink, the […]
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